Not that audiences weren't already hyped for the movie. For one, director Luca Guadignino, hot off the awards-show circuit of Call Me By Your Name, is behind this film. For another, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke composed the score. Did we mention that Tilda Swinton and Chloë Grace Moretz also star in it? Then there are the stories from last month's CinemaCon, where Amazon Studios showed a mere scene from the movie that made the audience sick to their stomachs. Even the pros called it "f**ked up" and "gross."

"Every movie I make is a step inside my teenage dreams, and Suspiria is the most remarkably precise teenage megalomaniac dream I could have had," he told The Guardian. "I saw the poster when I was 11 and then I saw the film when I was 14, and it hit me hard. I immediately started to dream about making my own version of it. ... So that’s how I am approaching it: a homage to the incredible, powerful emotion I felt when I saw it."